The disgraced comedian Bill Cosby is going before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court this week in the hopes of overturning his 2018 sexual assault conviction.

Fox News reported that lawyers representing Cosby, 83, are arguing that his conviction should be overturned because the judge allowed prosecutors to call five other accusers who said Cosby mistreated them the same way he did his victim, Andrea Constand. The defense is claiming that this prejudiced the jury against Cosby, and the testimonies should never have been allowed in the first place.

“That conduct you describe — the steps, the young women — there’s literature that says that’s common to 50% of these assaults — thousands of assaults — nationwide,” Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor asked a prosecutor during oral arguments before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. “So how can that be a common scheme?”

The prosecutor responded by giving more details about the relationships that Cosby had with these women, claiming that he used his status as a national known star to mentor them. The former “Cosby Show” star, who was known as “America’s Dad” for decades, would then allegedly take advantage of the women.

“There was a built-in level of trust because of his status in the entertainment industry and because he held himself out as a public moralist,” said Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Jappe. “The signature was isolating and intoxicating young women for the purpose of sexually assaulting them.”

Cosby is two years into his three- to 10-year prison sentence for drugging and molesting Constand in Pennsylvania. He met her through the basketball program at Temple University, which is the college he attended.

Jennifer Bonjean, the appellate lawyer representing Cosby, accused prosecutors of exploiting “all of this vague testimony”  about his alleged past behavior.

“They put Mr. Cosby in a position where he had no shot. The presumption of innocence just didn’t exist for him,” she told the court during Tuesday’s hearing, which was held virtually because of COVID-19.

Cosby has long claimed that he is innocent of all of the allegations against him, and has said that he will serve the entirety of his ten year sentence rather than admit any guilt to the parole board.